Posted on 06/18/2005 7:34:28 PM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
The United States is approaching the moment of decision in its relationship with the United Nations. Whether the bloated, corrupt world body fades, as did the League of Nations, or emerges as the supreme government of the world, is in the hands of the United States Congress.
The U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal continues to boil, while U.N. peacekeepers' sexcapades exploit victims of civil strife in Africa. Most of the 190 member nations of the U.N. are aligned against U.S. policy – whatever that policy may be – and demand that the U.S. provide "new and additional" funding for a never-ending string of U.N. programs.
The U.N. is teetering on the brink of extinction. The only hope it has of survival – without U.S. financial support – is to acquire the authority to tax. The United States has blocked dozens of U.N. tax proposals in recent years. But pressure is building again to grant taxing authority to the U.N.
At the recent G8 summit of finance ministers, France and Germany proposed a global tax on airline tickets. Hans Eichel, Germany's finance minister stated, "No one in the G8 [including the U.S.] has said anything against it. It's now on the agenda [for the G8 heads of state who meet in Scotland in July]."
In an effort to block the U.N. tax possibility, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, successfully added an amendment to an appropriation bill that prohibits any appropriation from being used to "... develop, publicize, implement or impose any U.N. tax or fee on any U.S. citizen."
With the European Union's constitution faltering, the U.N. is the only hope France, Germany and Russia have to constrain the United States. They will push to get this taxing authority for the U.N.
If the U.N. ever gets an independent source of revenue, there will be no way to stop the institution from becoming the world government its supporters want.
Congress and the American people realize that the U.N. cannot continue as it has operated in the past. The question is what to do about it. The House of Representatives seems to be coalescing around the idea that the U.N. can be reformed and has specified 39 specific actions that the U.N. should take – or risk losing 50 percent of U.S. financial support.
The U.N. is beyond reform. It has clearly demonstrated that its ultimate goal is to become the supreme government authority in the world. Since the publication of Our Global Neighborhood by the Commission on Global Governance, every action by the U.N. has been an implementation of the recommendations of the commission.
The U.N. reforms now proposed by Kofi Annan's reform committee are based on the commission's recommendations. Among them is the proposal to expand the U.N. Security Council by adding more permanent members and increasing the number of rotating members. Taxing authority is also a recommendation of the commission. The creation of a U.N. standing army is another.
Sadly, the reform measures contained in the House U.N. reform bill calls for the creation of a "Peacebuilding Commission," which could well be the precursor of the U.N. standing army.
The United States has two options: force the very reforms recommended by the Commission on Global Governance – and hasten the creation of a world government, or withdraw from the U.N. altogether – and save the world from a central global government that must inevitably fail.
The world government defined in Our Global Neighborhood – as well as the U.N. institution as it now exists – operates on the premise that government is the supreme power that grants or denies freedom to its people.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence and the government it produced demonstrate that a far better premise is that people are the supreme power – who grant or deny power to their government.
This idea is beyond the comprehension of most of the people in the world, including many people in the U.S. and, unfortunately, too many people in Congress. If the U.S. chooses the option to reform the U.N., it is simply strengthening the institution and endorsing its quest to become a world government.
If, on the other hand, the U.S. should choose to withdraw from the U.N. by enacting Ron Paul's American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2005 (H.R. 1146), world government can be averted.
This option would free the U.S. from many entangling obligations. It would allow the U.S. to affirm its founding principles and explore international relations with sovereign nations without regard to an overarching U.N. authority.
The best if not the only hope of retaining freedom in America and expanding freedom in the world in the 21st century is to abandon the failed U.N. institution and exercise the principles of freedom that have served America so well.
We should, but I doubt it'll happen.
read mine or DTogo's tagline.
You just don't get it ... this could be our LAST chance to get out.
GET THE US OUT OF THE UN AND THE UN OUT OF THE US
Did you see this thread today? Zell Miller and Newt calling for the censure of dicky Turban.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425214/posts
What would they target us with? A water pistol?
Oh yes! I love it.
That or spit balls.
Thanks!
Your son going through Officer Candidate School, is he? I'm applying, myself, as a college-option. You say he'll be commissioned next year; when does he go to OCS?
No, no - thank YOU! (You are welcome.)
You know, I've been hearing that since the early 60s. My Mom and Dad, who I'm sure were looked upon as kooks and it ain't happened yet after 45 years of hearing it, at least on my part. We can't even get Bolton in there, much less get that bunch of free-loading gang of psychopaths out of our country.
No. September 12, 2001 was the day for us to get out of the UN and send that toothless dawg packing.
Also on that day we should have:
Anyway, that's what should have been done, in my opinion.
He had a little problem last fall. While on an exercise at a ROTC Training area, he broke his arm. Had screws and pins in his elbow - he's healed perfectly according to the doc. This has caused him not to go to Air Assualt school this summer. So he will be commissioned next summer, after he completes Air Assualt school. I believe he goes to OCS after that, probably in the fall.
He has a playground in the back yard. He has a 50ft. length of 3 inch manila line hung up in a tree. He likes to climb this. Tires, like in football camp to run through. He had an old pick up that had a ladder rack, this is now his Chin Up bar.
He fills is Ruck Sack with 70lbs from his weight bench, for his 2 mile run. He runs with the Ruck and without it. He just told me he has his 1 mile run down to just a little over 5 min.
He took his bed out of his room about 2 years ago, he sleeps on the floor! He went to enlisted boot camp last summer, the first time he had a bed in over a year! LOL!!!
He has some plans to expand his play ground - Roman Chair, a rope slide from the top of the tree on his 3 inch line. No net !!! I told him to try cardboard boxes. He's dedicated!! 101st Airborne, then Rangers is his plan.
Can you imagine Russia, China, Europe, South America etc. ganging up on us. I think their hatred of us just might be the thing to unite them.
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They are already united. After 9/11, things changed, America Woke up and saw that the flowers we were smelling were covered with BS! Then the Oil for Food Scam was revieled, and we found out who our friends were and who our enemies were!! They are United and we are paying for it!!
Increasing UN funds is nothing more than ransom/payment for their smiling faces while they stab us in the back -Undermine our government, and tax the hell out of us!
Very French, wouldn't you say?
What good has the UN done for us, or for that matter, anyone else? No one takes it seriously and it's "Security Council" is a joke.
It's a useless organization that has outlived it's post WWII purpose and is now just a haven for crooks, rapists and murderers.
This is just the beginning for the Taxing powers of the UN. This is the initial shift of th eNew World Order. Once that becomes the NORM, then there will be other NORMS and just as they have eroded away our rights to freedom of speech with the HATE CRIME LAWS, other laws will be enacted or old laws ignored for the New World Order Interpretaion. Sound familiar???
The US Constitution will become irrelevant. The Already Failed European Constitution, which states that the citizen rights come from the Government unlike the US Constution, which states that our Unalienable Rights come from GOD. There is quite a difference their!!
So, we are basically right around the corner from the New World Order. Now we can see why the AL Gore's of the Left Wing Movement go balistic with the election of GW Bush, and the Iraqi War. It threw them way off schedule. We had all been lulled into a sort of somnambulistic stupor in the land of Cumbayah!!! I love you, You Love me!! 9/11 was the Alarm clock!
What would AL Gore have done to find our enemies, go to the UN!!! That would have been handled with a flair of Clintonesqu diplomacy and we would have been the JOKE!!!
It's getting to be time that these US Senators and Representatives start being concerned about being Americans and not just paying us, the American People, lip service.
I have often wondered what would make a US Senator, Voinavich, stand on the Floor of the Senate and Weep, actually CRY because of the appointment of an Official to the UN. The Fear he he said he felt for his children and their future. Was this guy threatened and if so by whom? What was their threat?
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